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Important This documentation space contains information about the on-premises version of BMC Helix Discovery. If you are using the SaaS version of BMC Helix Discovery, see BMC Helix Discovery (SaaS).

Integrating with credential brokers

BMC Discovery can use discovery credentials stored in multiple credential brokers. The credential broker is application software in your IT infrastructure that can store and manage different types of credentials, according to your in-house security policies.

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Credential broker performance testing

Credential brokers are designed with human interaction in mind. When BMC Discovery is scanning, it can make many simultaneous API calls. Before putting an integration with any supported credential broker into production, you should perform scale and performance testing in your IT environment.

We recommend that you do not use DNS names in credential broker fields, as it requires a performant and reliable DNS server. Slow DNS queries significantly increase scan times; even with a fast DNS server scan times are impacted. Where multiple names are defined for an IP address, BMC Discovery uses the first name or FQDN returned by the DNS server, which may not be consistent, depending on the DNS server configuration.

BMC Discovery supports the following credential brokers:

 

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BMC Helix Discovery 24.1 (On-Premises)